A man who said he helped dispose of Marioara Rostas’s body said he wanted to give a statement against the man charged with murdering her, despite knowing he too could be charged, his solicitor has said.

A frightened Marioara Rostas phoned her brother in Romania the day after she went missing asking for her "Daddy to come get her", a murder trial heard.

The father of a teenager found in a shallow grave in 2012 has described the day she disappeared in 2008, and his unsuccessful attempt to report her missing.

A court has heard Marioara Rostas's father was unable to make himself understood by gardai when he first tried to report her as missing.

A Dublin man charged with murdering teenager Marioara Rostas six years ago is due to go on trial today.

A 33-year-old man charged with the murder of Romanian teenager Marioara Rostas is expected to be sent forward for trial next week.

A man charged with the murder of Romanian teenager Marioara Rostas was further remanded in custody yesterday.

A 33-year-old man charged with the murder of Romanian teenager Marioara Rostas is due back in court today.

The lack of public outrage over the brutal murder of a Roma teenager raises serious questions about our values as a society, according to a senior garda.

For almost 1,500 days, the body of teenager Marioara Rostas lay hidden in a shallow grave in Co Wicklow, writes Barry Cummins

The brutal murder of teenager Marioara Rostas, whose body was uncovered in a shallow grave in the Wicklow Mountains, has shaken even veteran detectives, investigators said.

Detectives investigating the murder of Romanian teenager Mariora Rostas will wait for results from forensic and DNA tests before they move to re-arrest the main suspects in her death.

Gardaí believe human remains found in the Wicklow mountains are those of missing Romanian teenager Mariora Rostas.

A post mortem examination is to take place this evening on unidentified remains found in a forest in the Wicklow Mountains.

Bones buried in a plastic bag in a Wicklow mountain forest are believed to be those of a Romanian teenager missing for four years.

A ROMANIAN woman has been remanded in continuing custody charged with handling statues and ornaments stolen from graves at a Co Galway cemetery last August.

A CORK city shop owner alleged yesterday she was being harassed at her premises by a Romanian woman who appeared in court on a charge of shoplifting.

A MOTHER of two who appeared to have used a total of only €2.66 worth of electricity for the entire four-month period from December to March last year was convicted yesterday of interfering with the ESB meter at her home.

BRITAIN’S police watchdog has formally launched an investigation into the death of a Cork-based man during a police chase due to potential concerns over whether “the actions of officers were appropriate”.

THE death of a Cork-based 20-year-old who was hit by a train in London after fleeing police has been referred to Britain’s independent police watchdog.

Gardaí in Dublin are continuing to question one man this morning in connection with the disappearance and suspected murder of a Romanian teenager earlier this year.

A High Court action brought by a Romanian woman and her six-month-old baby who has been staying at a camp on a roundabout on the M50 aimed at securing family support services has been adjourned until Friday.

ROMA families living in Dublin on an M50 roundabout should be given garda protection, a racism watchdog demanded yesterday.